'Interpreter of Maladies' and 'The Namesake' were written by:

"Interpreter of Maladies" (1999) and "The Namesake" (2003) are books by the Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri.

About "Interpreter of Maladies":

It is a collection of nine short stories about Indians and Indian-Americans, dealing with love, loneliness, cultural identity and the experience of immigrants caught between two cultures.

The title story is about Mr. Kapasi, a tour guide in Odisha who also works as an interpreter for a doctor, and an Indian-American family visiting the Sun Temple at Konark.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000, making Lahiri the first writer of Indian origin to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was her debut book.

About "The Namesake":

It is her first novel. It tells the story of the Ganguli family, Bengali immigrants in the USA, and especially of their son Gogol, who is named after the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol and struggles with his name and identity.

It was made into a film (2006) directed by Mira Nair, with Irrfan Khan, Tabu and Kal Penn.

About Jhumpa Lahiri:

• She was born in 1967 in London to Bengali parents and grew up in Rhode Island, USA.
• Her other works include "Unaccustomed Earth" (2008, short stories) and "The Lowland" (2013), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

She later moved to Rome and began writing in Italian. Her books in Italian include "In Altre Parole" ("In Other Words", 2015) and the novel "Dove mi trovo" ("Whereabouts").

She received the National Humanities Medal from US President Barack Obama in 2014.

Other Indian-origin women writers:

• Kiran Desai: "The Inheritance of Loss" (Booker, 2006).
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: "The Mistress of Spices", "The Palace of Illusions".
• Anita Desai: "Clear Light of Day".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Kiran Desai wrote "The Inheritance of Loss".
• ✗Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wrote "The Palace of Illusions".
• ✗Anita Desai wrote "Clear Light of Day".